Teravolt (Ability)

Teravolt (Japanese: テラボルテージ Teravoltage) is an Ability introduced in Generation V. It is the signature Ability of Zekrom and Black Kyurem.

Effect

In battle

Teravolt ignores the effects of Abilities that could potentially affect the damage or effects of a move that its user executes. For example, a Pokémon with Teravolt can hit opponents that possess Levitate by using Earthquake. Teravolt applies regardless of target Pokémon, but only to moves executed by its user (so if two Pokémon in a Double Battle both know Earthquake, only the Pokémon with Teravolt can hit a Pokémon with Levitate).

Teravolt ignores all ignorable Abilities, not only the targets'—including the user's allies'. For example, if a Pokémon with Teravolt uses Spore on a Pokémon whose ally has Sweet Veil, the target will still fall asleep. Likewise, if a Pokémon with Teravolt uses Thunderbolt targeting an opponent while its own ally has Lightning Rod, it will still use the move on its original target. This also means that a Pokémon with Teravolt will not gain Attack due to an ally's Flower Gift.

The Abilities are only ignored while the move is being executed. They take effect again immediately after its execution.

• Abilities that prevent status conditions (such as Immunity and Oblivious) will not protect the Pokémon from receiving the status condition. However, many of these Abilities also have effects to cure the Pokémon of the status condition if afflicted, which will activate immediately after being inflicted with the status condition, even if it was inflicted by a Pokémon with Teravolt.
• If a Pokémon with Own Tempo consumes a held Berry that may cause confusion in response to the move of a Pokémon with Teravolt, it will become confused if it dislikes the flavor. However, Own Tempo will then activate and cure it of confusion.

If a Pokémon with Teravolt forces a Pokémon to switch in by using a move that switches the target out (such as Roar or Dragon Tail), ignorable Abilities are ignored when applying entry hazards. For example, a Pokémon with Levitate switched in this way will be affected by Spikes and Toxic Spikes (unless it is also ungrounded for other reasons); if a Poison-type Pokémon with Levitate is switched in this way, it will remove Toxic Spikes from its side of the field (unless it is also ungrounded for other reasons).

When a Pokémon with Teravolt is brought out, the message "<name> is radiating a bursting aura!" will be displayed.

Abilities affected

Teravolt ignores the following Abilities, even in situations where the Ability could increase the power of a move (such as using Low Kick on a Pokémon with Heavy Metal or using a Fire-type move on a Pokémon with Dry Skin):

Teravolt does not ignore the effects of Aura Break, Magic Guard, Comatose, Shields Down, Full Metal Body, Shadow Shield, and Prism Armor.

Outside of battle

Teravolt has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Teravolt

#	Pokémon		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0644		Zekrom	Dragon	Electric	Teravolt	None	None
646B	Kyurem	Kyurem	Dragon	Ice	Teravolt	None	None
Please note that abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In other games

Description

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

• In Volume 51, N's Zekrom was revealed to have Teravolt as its Ability.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 兆級電壓 Siuhkāp Dihn'aat Mandarin 兆級電壓 / 兆级电压 Zhàojí Diànyā * 億萬電壓 Yìwàn Diànyā * French Téra-Voltage German Teravolt Italian Teravolt Korean 테라볼티지 Teravoltage Portuguese Teravoltagem Spanish Terravoltaje Vietnamese Siêu Điện Áp

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